Speaking and Listening Resources

Listening

• Top 100 Speeches--American Rhetoric--text and audio
• Public Radio International--text and audio
• American Rhetoric--full text, audio, and some video
• MSNBC--videos with text
• British Pathe (YouTube channel)--considered the finest newsreel archive in existence with 85,000 newsreels
• Izzit.org--Izzit offers vocabulary and questions with non-fiction articles; some articles are from CBS News, CNN and other resources and have video/audio with them. With a free registration, Izzit will email you 2 articles several times a week.
• TED Ed
  • UEN Faculty Lounge Tutorial by Rachel Murphy

Activities for Speaking and Listening

• Socratic Seminar--Read, Write, Think
• Paideia Seminar (like Socratic)
• Recognizing Propaganda
• Exploring Media Messages--PBS
• Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments
• I Have a Dream Speech Analysis
• Conducting a Panel Discussion
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Websites:

• Simple Rubrics for CC Speaking and Listening Standards
• 9 Big Ideas in the Speaking and Listening Standards
• Fallacies
• Active Listening--U.S. Department of State
• How To Detect Bias In News Media

Other Resources:

• Swanson, Kristen. Teaching the Common Core: Speaking & Listening

Standards. Larchmont, New York: Eye on Education, 2013.